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Read more at: Driscoll Group participate in This is Engineering Day #BeTheDifference

Driscoll Group participate in This is Engineering Day #BeTheDifference

26 October 2020

A group of women in STEM the Driscoll group contributed to the Royal Academy of Engineering’s “This is Engineering Day” to promote Diversity in Engineering with photos and tweets.


Read more at: Welcome new group members!

Welcome new group members!

14 October 2020

We are happy to announce several new group members to our team. They are all warmly welcomed to the group. We continue to persist with our strong research efforts despite the pandemic.


Read more at: Materials Science labs reopen! The Driscoll group perseveres despite Covid!

Materials Science labs reopen! The Driscoll group perseveres despite Covid!

26 August 2020

We were pleased to get together in small groups outdoors in Judith’s garden to discuss work progress and lab matters.


Read more at: Printed coatings enable more efficient solar cells

Printed coatings enable more efficient solar cells

14 July 2020

Researchers at Cambridge, Imperial and Singapore have developed a method to print ultrathin coatings on next-generation solar cells, allowing them to work in tandem with silicon solar cells to boost efficiencies.


Read more at: Chao joins Peking University

Chao joins Peking University

15 June 2020

We say farewell to Dr. Chao Yun after many very successful years in the group (first as PhD student and then as post-doc). We are pleased to say that Chao will be working at Peking University for a while and that we have a joint grant to continue our very successful collaboration.


Read more at: Tuhin becomes an Assistant Professor

Tuhin becomes an Assistant Professor

15 June 2020

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Tuhin Maity has now taken up an Assistant Professor position at the IISER Thiruvananthapuram in India, after very successfully completing his EU H2020 MC fellowship (Grant no. MSCA-IF-2016-745886-MuStMAM) with additional kind sponsorship from the Isaac Newton Trust (Grant no. RG96474). We are thankful to the sponsors and are very happy to keep up our excellent collaboration with Tuhin in the future.


Read more at: Congradulations Dr Bonan Zhu

Congradulations Dr Bonan Zhu

1 May 2020

We congratulate Bonan Zhu who passed his Phd viva. Bonan will continue to collaborate with us on cathode materials for solid state batteries on a Faraday Project called FutureCat. His postdoc work is with David Scanlon at UCL. We look forward to welcoming Bonan back to the group so we can all celebrate together


Read more at: Nanjing Centre of Technology and Innovation donates PPE to Addenbroke's and the Royal Papworth hospitals

Nanjing Centre of Technology and Innovation donates PPE to Addenbroke's and the Royal Papworth hospitals

24 April 2020

Prof. Driscoll’s industry collaborators in China, have made a great donation of PPE via the Cambridge University-Nanjing Centre of Technology and Innovation to Addenbroke’s Hospital and the Royal Papworth Hospital, both in Cambridge. Prof. Driscoll and her group are grateful to all our Chinese students for helping us stay safe by providing PPE.


Read more at: The Driscoll Group thanks Dr Bill Welland for generous donation

The Driscoll Group thanks Dr Bill Welland for generous donation

7 April 2020

The Driscoll group is very grateful indeed to an alumnus of the department, Dr. Bill Welland, for his generous recent donation to our research group. We are really sorry that our summer meeting with Dr. Welland won’t now be able to take place, but we hope to meet him later in the year.


Read more at: Judith is awarded grants from the ERC and Leverhulme Trust

Judith is awarded grants from the ERC and Leverhulme Trust

2 April 2020

Judith is very pleased to receive an ERC advanced grant called EROS (Efficient and Robust Oxide Switching). More information is available in the link below. She is also please to receive a grant from the Leverhulme Trust, called ">100K High Temperature Superconductor Films with Low Electric Anisotropy"